“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life” (Samuel Ullman). As teens go along in life, they learn through the things they read, hear, and see; in particular, when one reads a book, they can connect with the connotations and it can alter someone or influence. Being able to connect to something that another is feeling can really draw people in like bugs to a light. As more and more people can connect to books it becomes more popular so that they may feel a sense of security. Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lois Lowry are two very great examples …show more content…
of different lessons and objects teenagers today can relate to. Specifically, the entire center of The Giver is memories. “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever” (Lois Lowry 144). There are so many great souls in this world just like Jonas. Everyone knows at least one person who is always trying to change themselves or the world for the better. In The Giver Jonas takes the saddening and horrifying memories to take action and let everyone have the memories of pain, long suffering, happiness, joy, love, and many more previously because that is what life is about. The quality of imagination and being able to think for ourselves. Teenagers can relate to that because even when they all face those trials, it can be used to change the world. Likewise, Anthem is another great example of how teenagers are; every teen has a little bit of rebellion deep down.
“It is forbidden,’ they answered” (Ayn Rand 31). Equality 7-2521 all his life had been different from the others in his society; his society is all about being equal. But he, even against the law, desires to know more. As this book goes along, Equality 7-2521 ends up discovering something so beautiful and something so contemporary; the discovery of light in his society. Because of his rebellion and curiosity, he found something so unique, something that could be used to change his society. He later tries to show this to the high and mighty council but they reject it and find it petrifying, something so dissimilar scared them. But, that is what life should be about. Life should be full of curiosity and discovery to be able to make life more adventurous and fun. Sometimes a little bit of rebellion can be a good thing because that is how Equality 7-2521 ends up finding ruins of old society and starting over with his true …show more content…
love. Furthermore, there are more lessons to be learned from The Giver.
The lessons in dystopian books have really caught the attention of so many because of the deeper meaning and hidden meanings that books have. “It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it?” (Lois Lowry 98). If you take a glance around society today, what do people find? Choices left and right such as, should I eat healthy or no? Should I buy this or this? Some choices in life are pretty silly but some really do matter. What could the outcome of someone not eating healthy be? Getting fat and having health problems in the future. If one had just chosen to eat right, that wouldn’t have been an issue. As teenagers travel the roads of life and come to a split path, they have to come to a decision of which way to journey. Some alternatives lead many down the road into the darkness but if everyone would just stop and regard the decisions, everything would be a little better in life. Less people would get hurt or lost and many would feel more wanted in life.
Clearly, there is always ways to learn through all that people see, hear, and read. Everyone can follow the example of Jonas by being courageous through all trials and using the things that bring us down the most to change the world. Just like Equality 7-2521 people can become more adventurous and creative. Life life with gratefulness and pure bliss because it goes by so speedily. Lastly, choices in life are some of the most important of all. Always try to choose
the right. The chances of choosing changes things.
Ayn Rand's novel is still popular almost a century later because Equality 7-2521 is a representation of a character who is different and he is treated differently for it. In Anthem Equality 7-2521 tells the reader about how he fights with the other boys in the house and as a punishment he is locked in a cellar.
This lesson can be applied to Albert Einstein when he was curious about physics and was determined to improve our understanding of the world. It can also be applied to Martin Luther King Jr., because as a child, he was very curious and became more and more determined to rid the country of segregation. Finally, it can be applied to our lives because as children, we show lots of curiosity and want to know more about the world we live in. Knowing the truth, whether it’s good or bad, can make us stronger individuals. Making a change involves displaying curiosity and determination. Changes need to be made all over the world, and our lives are improving every day because of curious and determined people like Jonas. If we all follow in changemakers’ footsteps, we will solve some of the world’s
These days, it’s easy to find books, movies, and tv shows that focus on the idea of an ideal society gone wrong, a dystopia. The rise of these types of popular stories can be traced back through literature. One of the first examples of a dystopian society in literature was the famous novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, in which a controlling society strips away the right to books and the knowledge they provide by burning them. However, that is only one of the many things wrong with that society. What many people don’t realize is that our society actually has a lot in common with these dystopias. While we may enjoy reading or watching stories of dystopian societies falling apart, in reality, we may be living in a real life diminishing
Having literature that can speak to your situation in life is what young adults need in their books. In Donna’s Norton Through the Eyes of a Child she lists seven characteristics of a good young adult novel and some of them are,“written from the viewpoint of an of young people, main characters must overcome their problem without help from the parent, deal with emotional problem of young adults and have fast paced storyline” (Norton, 2007). The Fault in Our Stars executed theses things perfectly. It is told from the perspective of a sixteen year old girl, living with cancer, but still going through what most sixteen year old’s go through, She has parents who do not understand her life and what she is going through so they cannot actually help her with her problems and she falls in love for the first time and experienced a tragic heartbreak. The story goes on how life does for a teenager, everything is happening fast and very out of their control, and they must live as best as they can with the circumstances of their life. John Green wrote more than just a teen cancer book, he told the experiences of not having any control in your teen years by using
I can assure you that reading this book will make you take valuable lessons with you. Jonas is a really wise, curious and a positive 12 year old boy. I think we should learn to be like him more because in the story Jonas shows how he follows what he thinks is right and not what the society thinks. This helps portray the importance of individuality.
In a world where people are unable to choose their life paths, Equality 7-2521 is alone. The psychological awareness of what happens around him sets him apart from others, even more so when he “invents” the light. But did Equality truly “create” electric light, or are these inventions shielded in secrecy from the whole of society? The denouncement of such inventions in the totalitarian society of Anthem oppresses the great minds of all of those that live within it- So, technology truly has not advanced within this society since the Great Rebirth in the world of “true equality”, created by Ayn Rand.
In the society of “The Anthem”, it is after the Unmentionable Times, and the word “we” is worshipped. The society is constructed that all men will rely on each other, become “brothers” of each other. However, Equality 7-2521 was a rebel. He knew that he and his brothers were just slaves of the city. He had broken many laws, and he was taller, smaller and generally healthier than his other brothers. Then, when he became fifteen, he wanted to become a Scholar, for he was very knowledgeable, but he was chosen to become a Street Sweeper. He swept the streets near the fields where the woman of Home of Peasants would work. Then, he spotted Liberty 5-3000 who was a young woman, he would always wave at her, and she would do the same. When Equality
Recently publishing companies have focused efforts to release books that are intended for the large teenage audiences. However these books have unintentionally become popular with adult readers who have been drawn into these book franchises, such as The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Twilight. The argument within the article, Adults Should Read Adult Books, focuses on the growing number of adults reading young adult fiction and the consequences of this trend. While many people would argue that the genre of a book should not dictate readership, the author of the article, Joel Stein disagrees. In his article, Stein argues that adults should be ashamed for reading a YA book. Additionally, he argues in for adult reader to gain knowledge from a
The world is in a spell of false security and your the only one that can see through it, you’re in a dystopian culture and you don't know how to get out. The dystopian genre is taking off in the teen community. The novel Anthem and the movie The Giver are greatly similar. Both storylines are about two men with a vision of the future that they share with no one else. For some strange reason young adults around the world seem to be connecting to these stories. Whether it's the pressure that both main character and real world teens share or the need to be different it is quite obvious they are in love. This love can be traced back to ,as appears in the The Giver, being able to connect with the main character, Jonas, as he learns about new feelings and sensations he never knew about and in Anthem when they understand the pressures that Equality feels from society. It can also be said that both Anthem and The Giver reach deep into a teens mind and bring forth the idea of society refusing to listen to ideas involving anything uncertain or different from belief of the time.
The book and movie come from similar concept, the idea of a boy who discovers the hidden secrets of his perfect community by receiving memories of the past and struggled with memories. The common ideas that both movie and book shares, is living in controlled perfect society where no war, hunger, love or any kind of real emotions. When the kids reach a certain age they make the ceremony and each obtain new items, or task, so Jonas was chosen for special job is to be the new Receiver of Memory, which he goes to train to inherent all the memories of the previous decades which the community don’t know like animals, colors, and death Etc. the colors in the movie give the viewer chill when Jonas was slowly introduced to colors, the glance of red,
My dad taught me that books could be my teachers, my mom taught me that our backyard could be my classroom, and my sister showed me that you could bring books into the swimming pool. I did not know it when I would spend hours in the pool reading a book that my parents weren’t encouraging it in vain, but my family life, for good reason, was centered on books. We were the planets orbiting around one sun that was the bookshelf. Little did I know that books would be the catalyst to academic success in my early life, and I owe it all to my family. Although a life with a book in your nose might seem boring, I was never bored. Living through the characters vicariously, I explored Narnia with Lucy, attended Hogwarts with Harry, and rode dragons with Eragon. Of course
Dystopian fiction has a great effect on teenagers because it causes us to look at the world differently. Anthem and The Hunger Games are great examples of what its like to live in a dystopian world and be a dystopian protagonist. I think teenagers can learn a lot through reading novels like this or watching the
Characters in both of the novels Code Talker and The Giver have different personalities, but also are similar in ways as well. In the novel Code Talker, Ned Begay is looked upon differently since he is Navajo. At a young age Ned had to leave his family to attend boarding school, but returns later to go to the Navajo High School. As he took a liking to studying maps of islands, he was laughed at by the teachers and even students for being a Navajo who imagined traveling to far away places. Jonas from the novel The Giver, grows up in the Community, which is a society that lives by strictly implemented rules. He starts to see things that are strange to him, like the time he saw an apple change while tossing it with his friend, but the Community wants everyone to live and feel the same. Every year a ceremony is held that recognizes the children from newborn to age 12, and those turing 12 are given an Assignment. Jonas receives a very rare and special Assignment, The Receiver. He gathers memories from the Giver and starts to put his life in the Community and the memories of the past together. He realizes that there are some things in the Community that need to be changed, and is look strangely at when asking for others to change their way of play.
The purpose of this book was to show us a possible version of a "Utopia".
How people read and interpret books truly depends on their age. Readers start, in the premature stages, by reading children’s books; books written simply to tell a story rather than give a deep and meaningful message, sometimes not having one at all. They then move onto chapter books, not noticeably meaningful enough, but it does take more dedication and thought to understand it. Finally, in the mid to late teenage years, comes the more rigorous and intellectual literature. These are books and novels written to provoke a more profound thought and interpretation. Commonly, authors push to convey a broader message. This can be done in several ways. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Letter, provides his broader themes and